Out of the margins: Women's studies in the nineties: edited by Jane Aaron and Sylvia Walby, Falmer Press 1991, UK£10.95 pb.

Abstract

Introduction: towards a feminist intellectual space, J.Aaron and S.Walby. Part 1 Women's studies today: what are these women up to today? women's studies and feminist research in the European community, C.Zmroczek and C.Duchen from the margins to the mainstream - issues around women's studies on adult education and access courses, M.Kennedy and B.Piette teaching methods in women's studies - challenging the mainstream, C.Lubelska thinking of things in themselves - theory, experience, women's studies, M.Humm. Part 2 Women's studies and the feminist movement: the problem of gender for women's studies, M.Evans passion and in women's studies in the 90s, R.Klein feminist and women's studies - struggle, not incorporation, S.Lees on course - women's studies - a transitional programme, J.Hanmer. Part 3 Working with diversity: out of the margins and into the soup - some thoughts on incorporation, L.Brimstone racism - whose liberation? implications for women's studies, S.Watt and J.Cook the representation of lesbianism in contemporary women's fiction - the division between politics and psychoanalysis, P.Palmer who wrongs you, Sappho? - developing lesbian sensibility in the writing of lyric poetry, G.Hanscombe and S.Namjoshi questions of difference and international feminism, A.Brah. Part 4 Making a difference: feminist perspective in sociology - the challenge to mainstream orthodoxy, P.Abbott why psychology (badly) needs feminism, S.Wilkinson feminist autobiography and feminist epistemology, L.Stanley questioning the definition of literature - fictional and non-fictional accounts of childbirth, T.Cosslett.